Word: plea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Another great factor of the industrial world has been unpatriotic enough, in this most critical stage of reconstruction, to curtail the production of a national essential. In answer to Mr. Wilson's plea for the postponement of their strike until after the labor conference at Washington October 6, the steel workers state: "My president, delay is no longer possible. . . . We fully understand the hardships that will follow, and the reign of terror that unfair employers will institute. The burden falls upon the men, but the great responsibility therefor rests upon the other side." The strikers make no attempt...
...outstanding contributions are those of Professor Hack and Mr. R. C. Rand. In reality, they are complementary; for they both constitute a needed protest against that evasion of initiative which is regretably characteristic of the present era in the American college. On most of Mr. Lamont's effective plea for the Endowment Fund I am estopped from commenting; but I would like to point out how vital is the appeal lie makes for the proper equipment of chemistry and the establishment of a mobile fund. Neither the poetry nor the book reviews seem to me good. The first has real...
...Education", which is appearing in a current magazine, John Jay Chapman '84, attacks the new plan of several American colleges of abolishing Latin and Greek as entrance requirements. He makes a strong defense of the classics as an essential part of University education, and makes a particularly effective plea for the continuance f Latin...
...real excitement in the number is Mr. McVeagh's "Horrible Suggestion" that compulsory attendance at all college classes be abolished. Whatever "horror" there may be in the plan, is mitigated by the lightness and persuasiveness of the plea. Surely here is bait for discussion, and no undergraduate harassed by the office should be without this able docu- ment. Possibly the office itself should be supplied with copies. In any case, it is to be hoped more may be written on the various sides of the subject...
...Office Department. The patient and fairly moderate demands of the operators for an inquiry on the part of some thoroughly impartial tribunal were repeatedly held up, and delayed, and referred on. Mr. Burleson has admitted that there is justice in their demands, but does not seem to like their plea for complete impartiality as between them and the Government. If he really believes in the justice of a wage of ten dollars per week, if he truly appreciates the difficult situation into which the New England public has been thrown, and if as he says he wishes to be loyal...